Lady Gaga missed out on Muppets cameo
Lady Gaga lost out on the chance to make her big screen debut in new family movie The Muppets after her cameo was cut from the final edit.
The pop superstar, real name Stefani Germanotta, is a self-confessed Muppets fan and agreed to film a funny sequence in which she and her all-star entourage, including comedians Ed Helms and John Krasinski, reportedly squared off against Miss Piggy.
But Gaga's first film feature was left on the cutting room floor
when director James Bobin was forced to drop a number of scenes to
bring the three-hour movie down to 98 minutes, according to
writer/producer Clint Morris, who runs top film site
MovieHole.net.
He writes on the website, "Stefani Germanotta's big moment from the
film was cut. With her entourage, including Ed Helms, Eric
Stonestreet... and John Krasinski, Gaga would have gone
head-to-head with Miss Piggy in a sequence. Rumor has it Madonna's
Vogue was somehow involved (which makes sense considering Piggy is
the editor of Paris Vogue magazine in the film)..."
And Gaga wasn't the only pop star to miss out on a Muppets cameo -
Katy Perry's musical sequence, in which she spoofs her hit song I
Kissed A Girl, didn't make the cut either.
Screenwriter Nick Stoller tells MTV.com, "At one point we had
squirrels singing, I Kissed a Squirrel, or it was Miss Piggy
singing I Kissed A Squirrel And I Liked It. More and more squirrels
are lining up to kiss her, and she's getting weirded out."